Russia recruiting a new brigade of mercenaries to fight in Ukraine alongside the army, the BBC has

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7. Putin scrambling to find new recruits to send into Ukraine: report

The Russian army is not up to fighting a real war.

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According to a report from the Daily Beast's Shannon Vavra, officials at the Pentagon told reporters on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin's desire to bring in foreign fighters to help with his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is not going well.....

“We are aware of recruiting efforts… in Syria,” the senior Pentagon official said for the record. “We haven’t seen indications that their recruiting efforts have borne fruit and resulted in the actual arrival of foreign fighters from that part of the world.”.....

The report adds that Russia has indicated they are sending their own reinforcements into the country, which the Pentagon also has doubts about.

“Nothing to speak to in terms of Russian reinforcements of themselves. We haven’t seen any indications, at least not tangible indications, that they are trying to plus up their manpower from elsewhere," they said with Vavra adding, "Putin's planning in general hasn’t been in tip-top shape, intelligence officials told lawmakers in briefings on Capitol Hill this week. Russia has suffered between 2,000 and 4,000 casualties in just a matter of weeks, according to analysis from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency shared with members of Congress. And for approximately a week now, a column of Russian forces has been stalling outside Kyiv, and have only made about five kilometers of progress in recent days, the senior defense official said."

Putin's army is a flop and he is also failing at recruiting mercenaries